I've named dropped it before, but the Black Christmas remake, besides being totally unnecessary, can stand on it's own two feet as being one of the most hideous atrocities ever committed to film.

I'm with you on this. There is something so fundamentally annoying about the whole tone of the remake that I found myself getting angry just watching it and bailed out after 30 minutes or so. No plans to ever watch the rest.

Resident Evil movies- Last I checked the games didn't feature a veritable superhero who could destroy satelites with her mind, nor anything equally idiotic.

High Tension- Arguable, since it was supposed to be loosely based on Dean Koontz's Intesnity, which dealt with the relevance of modern psychology to heinously insane individuals. As smart as the book was, though, it was incredibly boring. High Tension wasn't, but it certainly axed the references to modern psychology. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that it strayed from the novel.

Fight Club (the video game)- I'll let that one sink in. It pretty much tells itself if you've seen/read Fight Club.

Godzilla (1998)- I find I'm hating this movie less and less as I get older, but it still failed to capture the spirit of Godzilla. It managed to be a passable Hollywood-produced kaiju film, and that was about it.

First Blood was a good film, but it was centered on the legacy of Vietnam not the action. Rambo 2 was the best action movie ever made. The 3rd one sucked big time. Although in hindsight the 3rd film had a good speech about a Jihad really being a war for freedom. Considering how the propaganda did a doublethink 180 on the Muslims in Afghanistan, I find that part humorous, its like finding part of 1984 in real life.

The recent remake of Total Recall was completely unecessary as instead of just doing their own thing and going back more to the short story, they did a pointless retread of the Verhoeven film which was already perfect to begin with.

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"There is no way out of here. It'll be dark soon. There is no way out of here."

I feel like The Thing (2011) missed the point. It really didn't have much going for it in terms of suspense and relied too much on jump scares. The Thing seemed like its go to plan was just "It's clobbering time!" rather than anything more subtle. Also the whole deal with the space ship was stupid.

I feel like The Thing (2011) missed the point. It really didn't have much going for it in terms of suspense and relied too much on jump scares. The Thing seemed like its go to plan was just "It's clobbering time!" rather than anything more subtle. Also the whole deal with the space ship was stupid.

I liked the prequel and felt that the more aggressive behavior of the thing(s) in it could be attributed to the creature not having much time to learn how to deal with human prey. The things spawned from the dog in the original movie would have been able to learn that the subtle approach was better.

Where I feel the movie really missed the point was at the end. We obviously weren't really supposed to know whether the person being killed with the flamethrower was a thing, or if the person doing the killing was, either, for that matter. Then some dumbass dubbed the thing's death howl into the scene, ruining the most powerful moment of the movie.

The recent remake of Total Recall was completely unecessary as instead of just doing their own thing and going back more to the short story, they did a pointless retread of the Verhoeven film which was already perfect to begin with.

I liked the prequel and felt that the more aggressive behavior of the thing(s) in it could be attributed to the creature not having much time to learn how to deal with human prey. The things spawned from the dog in the original movie would have been able to learn that the subtle approach was better.

Where I feel the movie really missed the point was at the end. We obviously weren't really supposed to know whether the person being killed with the flamethrower was a thing, or if the person doing the killing was, either, for that matter. Then some dumbass dubbed the thing's death howl into the scene, ruining the most powerful moment of the movie.

I agree with you entirely on this one Akira. I think the behavior made perfect sense considering the unknown human animal to it. The only way a slower method would work is if it came upon the group of its own accord. However, it was found and brought back. The cat is out of the bag so hiding and watching would make no sense.

The ending was terrible. The tension from questioning would make more sense.

Chud 2, anyone? Take a flying leap from toxic waste under New York and horribly mutated former homless folk with Stretch Armstrong bodies to- a goofy zombie wandering the... suburbs. That and the theme song with only three words.

Chud 2, anyone? Take a flying leap from toxic waste under New York and horribly mutated former homless folk with Stretch Armstrong bodies to- a goofy zombie wandering the... suburbs. That and the theme song with only three words.

"Bud, the CHUD. Bud, the CHUD. Bud, the CHUD." x Big Scary Number.

I read somewhere that this was originally supposed to be a return of the living dead sequel. I think in that series context it would make more sense. I like CHUD 2 though, it's one of the better horror comedies from that era, fun to put on when friends are over.